To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

Kenya, though it has various education interventions from the state and non-state actors is faced with very low literacy levels. Many of the residents engage in casual labour and subsistence farming for survival. With this low level of literacy, many of the parents are not aware of good...

In Kenya, it's almost common sense when one is asked about the best school around. The first thing that strikes in mind is a cursory comparison of school mean scores in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination which tie neatly with the number of government-sponsored...

Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college, thus delaying the beginning of and shortening...

The termination of universal primary education (UPE) led to an immediate reduction in the length of female education by 1.3 years in Kenya. With this quasi-experimental change, our paper identifies the long-term impacts of education on total fertility and child quality investment. One additional...